The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-01
NO. 20.
Personal AND IMPERsONAl.

Gilbert, the English librettist, has
not seen one of his plays acted for four
teen years, owing to excessive nervous
ness.
Belgium has passed a law making
drunkenness crime. Any person
found drunk outside his own door is
fined and imprisoned.
Mr.. John Wanamaker, of Philadel-
phia, has purchased building where
young women employed in his large
establishment can find a comfortable
and cheerful home.
Two of the late William II. Van
derbilt's Cancelled checks-one for one
million, the other for six times that
sum--are fondly preserved by some
of his nearest friends.
Prof Barnard, of the Nashville
Observatory, has within a year cap
tured thirteen one hundred-dollar
prizes for the discovery of comets. He
finds profit in reading the answer in the
stars.
There is a pretty good platform in
the admonition of N. G. Taylor to his
son, the new Governor of Tennessee.
The old gentleman wrote: "Let your
promises be few and strictly per-
formed -
Mrs. j. w Smith, of Orange, N.
j., during the last year rode 2,634
miles upon a tricycle., 2,22S of which
were made upon tandem tricycle.
with her husband and 415 miles alone
upon a tricycle..
-Ex-Senator Conkling had claim
of $67, 1915 against the estate Of the
late Arthur b. johnson, of Utica, N.
Y. AS there was only $12. .316.O3 to dis
tribute among claimants for nearly
half million the ex-Senator's claims
yielded him only $1,87S.53.-UticG
Herald.
The mother of a young woman in
Oakland, Cal, who had injured her
health by too much study, offered her
ten cents for every squirrel she would
shoot. The daughter took to the woods
and in one week recently shot eighty
five squirrels and is fast regaining her
health.-Sdn Francisco Chronicle.
One of the gentle speakers who adj
dressed the Assembly at Albany on the
subject of woman suffrage made this
startling statement: 'If war broke out
to-day we would send regiment after
regiment of women to the front.
There was. one woman in the Bevolu-
ton who had thirteen horses shot from
under her. "-Albang journal.
"A fOur-year-old child in Coalport,
Pa, has, apparently, no bones. II
folds its legs behind its head as readily
as other persons fold their arms in the
same place; it uses its feet to scratch
its head quite as often as it uses its
hands; and comforts its body in a most
remarkable way. Otherwise it is like
other children. Pittsburgh Post.
e. c. Scroggs is spoken of by the
Nashville papers as one of the most re-
markable men in that city. A young
man of limited capital, he has since Oc-
tober, by fortunate and shrewd invest
ments, cleared about sixty thousand
dollars in Nashville real estate. The
remarkable part of the matter is that
he has for the last fifteen years been
entirely blind
Minnie Fredericks, of Altoona, Pa,
is the champion idiot of the age. She
was married the other day in Pitts
burgh to Sing Wing Jung Toy, an un-
usually ill-favored Chinese laundry
man. When asked when she fell in
love with him she said: Il never fell. /
didn' marry him for love. l only mar
red him to give the people something
to talk about" Under the oircum-
stances it will not be long before she
will weary of her Toy Chicago 7Tt5-